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A growing number of clinics are adopting technology to automate the process of reminding patients about their appointments. When done correctly, appointment reminders can reduce the risk of no-shows, help patients arrive more prepared, and increase operational efficiency within the…

The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care recently announced family health teams (FHTs) “must make reasonable efforts within the Budget included in Schedule ‘B’ to ensure that the option of email communication is available to patients.” To complicate…

We are often asked by the Ocean community, “How can we collect information from our patients using Ocean Check-In Kiosks in our waiting room without jeopardizing patient privacy?” Check-in kiosks are often placed near the front desk to make them…

Fall season = flu season and when it comes to prevention, vaccines are your patient’s best line of defence. Each year, approximately 12,200 people are hospitalized and 3,500 die as a result of contracting influenza. Despite these statistics, it can…

Keywords are a powerful tool in Ocean that help you to automate patient form completion and clinical notes. Today, we want to highlight one of the most helpful features of keywords: using them in tablet rules to automatically load specific…

With our weekly software updates, there are always new features being added to Ocean. This can make it hard to keep up with the latest and greatest. This month, we clear up a few questions about the different ways you…

With over 4,000 forms, the Ocean Library is a very large – and constantly growing – clinical resource. Every day Ocean clients add to this resource with new and interesting forms. In order to make it easier to get started building your own eForms, CognisantMD…

We answer hundreds of support questions each month from Ocean users about everything from creating forms to choosing a tablet. We chose a few recent customer questions that we think may be helpful to other users. Have a question you…

We answer hundreds of support questions each month from Ocean users about everything from creating forms to choosing a tablet. We chose a few recent customer questions that we think may be helpful to other users. Have a question you…

NotesThis article is no longer being updated. For up to date tablet recommendations please refer to the article “What tablet should I buy? on our support site. This article was last updated in November 2017 to include a tablet recommendation…

This customized patient handout is generated based on the parent responses to the NutriSTEP nutrition screening tool in Ocean. It includes concise key messages and can be easily printed for the parent to take home. (Click to enlarge) Are you…

“What do other clinics, physicians and researchers use Ocean for most often?” This may be the single, most-asked question that we get from clients and prospects. In an attempt to clearly answer this question, we decided to take a look…

We recently brought together a leading hospital, a major university health services clinic and a family health team to develop an automated process to collect patient consent at the point of care using the Ocean tablet. It includes a detailed consent form based on…

Do you know this man? More importantly, did you know that he might be able to view and even sell your patient’s health data? He works as a system administrator in your new cloud-based health IT solution. The database is…

With the fall fast approaching, it’s time for us to start planning ahead for flu season. As family doctors, we are tasked with maximizing influenza immunization rates for our patient population each year. Since it is such a simple, safe,…

A screenshot of the visual statin decision aid tool that patients can review before discussing the treatment with their physician. A colleague recently forwarded me this really interesting NEJM article, which reflects a growing trend toward incorporating patient preference in our clinical guidelines. It…

If you’re a family physician in a rostered system like me, you are surely familiar with the frustration of our patients’ “outside use” of other health services. Every quarter, we receive a report from the ministry of our rostered patients…

Very few people realize that the genesis of the Ocean Platform was actually a series of tools that our co-founder, Dr. Doug Kavanagh built when he was in medical school, to help clinicians save time and still provide excellent patient care.…

How do you keep tablets safe? How often are they stolen? How do you keep them clean and sanitized? Of all the questions we get asked, the one that comes up again and again is, how can you keep a…

“Just click on this link to ensure you continue to receive email from us! If you’re tired of being asked for email consent, you are not alone. With the introduction of CASL (Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation) on July 1, 2014, virtually…